Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By comparison , following a chain or tag involves reading the link field , finding the key in it , picking up the address and searching for it . |
| 2 | But it is not generally the stuff that appears on television , where self-restraint has become the norm . |
| 3 | Where absenteeism does become a focus of management attention , there are very tangible improvements . |
| 4 | A book of ethics does not have to spell it out , any more than a book about mathematics or zoology has to include the reminder ‘ Read me attentively , intelligently ’ . |
| 5 | To withhold that assistance constitutes an irregularity which may be material depending on the circumstances , since , if the jury return a guilty verdict , one can not tell whether some misconception or irrelevance has played a part . |
| 6 | Whatever the subject of the release there are a number of simple questions to which the editor or journalist needs to have the answers . |
| 7 | Certainly , it is sometimes said that a claim for conspiracy gives the plaintiff procedural advantages , but the reality of this may turn on how far it is to be held on ordinary principles that instigation or procurement suffices to make a person who does not participate in the act a joint tortfeasor . |
| 8 | Where management has set the framework for efficient cleaning and supervision is adequate faults will rarely arise . |
| 9 | Using a finger or pen helps to guide the eye . |
| 10 | A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change . |
| 11 | Once the child or baby has joined the family , practical concerns over childcare can arise . |
| 12 | TELECOMS giant Cable & Wireless has announced a £500m deal with Canada 's BCE . |
| 13 | Black & Decker has introduced the Cut Saw on the d-i-y market . |
| 14 | Nynex Corp 's New England Telephone & Telegraph has filed a shelf registration with the Securities & Exchange Commission to offer up to $400m of debt securities . |
| 15 | No sector of industry or commerce has escaped the effects of the current global trade recession . |
| 16 | Desire and reason do not make good bed-mates , for where reason tries to control the world , desire is aware of the vastness of life , which it knows it can never control . |
| 17 | Still , it is difficult to believe that either linguistics or psychology has achieved a level of theoretical understanding that might enable it to support a ‘ technology ’ of language teaching . |
| 18 | It is possible with all monitors or TV sets to turn the volume to zero . |
| 19 | The law of passing-off is particularly useful if there is no registered mark to be infringed ; perhaps a trader or manufacturer has used a mark for several years without registering it as a trade mark . |
| 20 | Their use as a screen or selector seems to dictate the curriculum rather than merely to reflect it , and to bring it about that easily measurable accomplishments should be given priority , the repeating of acquired factual information , or the mechanical performance of skills picked up without understanding . |
| 21 | To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis . |
| 22 | Not a single priest or minister has condemned the craze from the pulpit , despite the fact that the local cemetery is the favourite venue for regular weekend binges , according to local councillor Walter Greer . |
| 23 | The objective of the Lausanne conference should be to encourage Kenya and its allies to emulate the conditions pertaining in the Kruger and Hwange national parks , where culling has become a necessity born out of successful conservation , rather than to encourage policies which could turn them into the run-down disaster zones Mr Leakey described . |
| 24 | But I think that we can persuade them that it is something that Parliament has said a planning application that deals with local issues can be determined locally . |
| 25 | Of course he did not deny that experience does influence the development of some behaviour patterns , and he accordingly divided behaviour patterns into instinctive ( inherited patterns which develop independently of experience ) and learned ( the opposite ) . |
| 26 | ‘ And as my disgusting stepfather walked out two and a half years ago , ’ pointed out Perdita , ‘ the Committee are going to think it pretty odd that Mum 's got a bun in the oven . ’ |
| 27 | There is no doubt that agriculture has transformed the environments of all developing countries . |
| 28 | Gastrin and pentagastrin do not affect proximal or distal colonic segmenting pressure activity , although pentagastrin does increase the number of sigmoid colonic myoelectrical spike potentials in normal subjects . |
| 29 | Swords-Isherwood and Senker conclude that industry continues to underestimate the significance of marketing and sales functions , and that this weakness , if it persists , will make companies even more vulnerable in the future as the incorporation of microelectronics into products makes these products more complex . |
| 30 | The Labour party 's document makes it clear that Labour has forgotten every word , and that is why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government . |